Playfair, Robert Haldane ♂

Education

Student United College 1850-1851 Lat. 1; Math. 1 1851-1852 Lat. 2; Math. 2; Chem. 1852-1853 N. Phil.; Log. 1854-1855 M. Phil.; Gk. 2. Attended Established Church while a student.

Birth/childhood

Born 14.10.1835 youngest son of Colonel William Davidson Playfair, H.E.I.C.S. [Honourable East India Company's Service] retired and Anne Ross. [Soldier]

Career

Lieutenant 1st Staffordshire Militia. [Soldier]

Death

Died at Buenos Ayres [now Buenos Aires, Argentina] 3.1.1865 aged 29.

Sources

• St Andrews Gazette 4.3.1865
• Monumental inscription St Andrews Cathedral burial ground